Draft Law Shapes Student Deferments Amid 19‑Year‑Old Priority
The proposed law speeds up draft appeals, keeps local boards autonomy, and places 19‑year‑olds at the top of induction priority with college deferments now a right for undergraduates meeting school standards. It would start for four years from July 1 and would apply to all students, ending deferments when they finish, turn 24, or leave school, with limited hardship exceptions.
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Robert A. Hunt
Washington
Congress
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Senate
House
Expr
Pentagon
Episcopalians Back Broad Social Action Plan
Southeastern Episcopalians adopt a broad social action program urging a national housing policy favoring the poor and banning discrimination in housing. The nine resolutions aim to boost Negro leadership, fund community organizing, upgrade schools for the poor, and expand job opportunities, to be presented at Seattle in September.
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National Executive Council
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Seattle
General Convention
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Israeli Girls Behind Troops in Sinai and Jordan War
Israeli girls in the Chen Corps accompany frontline troops as secretaries nurses and radio operators in Sinai and Jordan campaigns. Most 18 to 20 year olds serve 20 months before reserve duty. some serve in air force and paratroop units. marriage ends active service after childbirth. Col Stella Levi highlights morale boosting role while noting uniforms and equality. many veterans trace to British WWII service and Palestinian volunteers.
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Sharm el Sheikh
Egypt
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Jordan
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Air Force
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Desert
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Small Group May Wield Power In House
In Washington AP report says antiwar Democrats joined Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats to defeat Johnson debt ceiling plan 210 to 197. Rep George E Brown Jr predicts more liberal defections on tax increases. Johnson eyes six percent surcharge but has not sent bill. Rep Robert W Kastenmeier agrees critics may repeat their opposition.
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Johnson
House
George E. Brown Jr
Dcalif
Brown
Tunity
Congress
Robert W. Kastenmeier
D-Wis
Vietnam
Education That Fails To Inform The Mind And Reason
A concise critique argues that education devoid of informing the mind and teaching reasoning is useless, urging reevaluation of teaching aims to cultivate analytical thinking and independent judgment.
Space Official Predicts One Time Zone For World
NASA official Leonard Jaffe predicts a world embracing a single time zone with a 23 hour 56 minute day. He argues sun time would drift but global noon would align, aiding three shift use of roads, schools, factories and communications amid a June 25 global satellite telecast involving 24 nations.
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Space Official
Washington
U.S
Leonard Jaffe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
New York
Jaffe
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